wraithlike

adjective

Definition of wraithlikenext
as in disembodied

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wraithlike
  1. ghostly
  2. incorporeal
  3. spiritual
  4. spectral
  5. formless
  6. phantom
  7. ethereal
  8. unbodied
Adjective
  • Homes with ghostly guests will also run home buyers a much higher price in Memphis, where the average value of a haunted home is $266,570, a 77% increase from the average home price of $150, 672.
    Diana Leyva, The Tennessean, 30 Oct. 2024
  • The humans caught in this ghostly loop cannot escape the past. Amy Greer and fellow paranormal researcher Michael Renegar spent years trying to track down the possible historical origins of Jamestown’s vanishing hitchhiker.
    Elizabeth Friend, Longreads, 29 Oct. 2024
Definition of ghostly
Adjective
  • If reason teaches that God is incorporeal, this means that God has no body; God does not physically see, nor do people see God.
    Randy L. Friedman, The Conversation, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The digital files are incorporeal.
    BostonGlobe.com, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2021
Definition of incorporeal
Adjective
  • As the two compete to disprove the existence of the other’s passion, they get caught up in an encounter of both the spiritual and paranormal, imbuing both teenagers with powers beyond belief.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Or at the very least, take some cues from Kwanzaa, invented in 1966, which established a tradition of giving modest, meaningful gifts to children, separate from (i.e. after) Christmas, with no Santa myth, and with some cultural or spiritual significance.
    Gord Magill, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of spiritual
Adjective
  • The song has a minimalist arrangement — highlighted by a spectral slide guitar — and crystalline vocal harmonies, which add a glow to its message of hope for better days ahead.
    Maura Johnston, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2024
  • The team—which includes two brothers who originally spotted 2024 PT5—revealed the asteroid’s chemical composition by spectral analysis.
    Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Nov. 2024
Definition of spectral
Adjective
  • The Right was formless, fractured, a collection of irritable mental gestures -- and then William F. Buckley Jr. founded this journal, bringing the various respectable strands of conservatism together and discarding the others.
    Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review, 19 Dec. 2024
  • That doubtlessly makes Skeleton Crew feel more formless than would be acceptable if the series had been trimmed down to a movie.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Definition of formless
Adjective
  • Callahan’s vocals shine through with authority, sitting nicely in the phantom center channel.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 17 Dec. 2024
  • The Times often published the lists of their names and regiments, like a phantom roll call: the 121st Ohio, the 11th Indiana, the 29th Michigan, the 17th Kansas, the 10th Wisconsin.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of phantom
Adjective
  • Singing over gruff hip-hop beats and ethereal minimalist ballads, the Argentine singer weaves a provocative tale of self-discovery with diaristic lyrics that excavate self-acceptance, intense romance and emotional maturity.
    Pamela Avila, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Candied and floral, almost perfumed fruit-like in quality with an ethereal long finish of orange blossom and red berries.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
Definition of ethereal
Adjective
  • Though its name suggests a nootropics concern or a purveyor of networked exercise equipment, Superhuman’s unbodied offering is productivity software for the inbox.
    Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 17 July 2019
  • Deleuze and Guattari, in Anti-Oedipus, see in it the model of a new kind of reasoning: schizoid, unbodied, and diffuse.
    Sam Kriss, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2017
Definition of unbodied
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